Orange Blossom Notes Dear Members, October 2010 Hello – It Has Been Another Busy Month at SIA/WC!! Fall the Springfield Improvement Assn
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Page 2 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Orange Blossom Notes Dear Members, October 2010 Hello – it has been another busy month at SIA/WC!! Fall The Springfield Improvement Assn. & Woman’s Club is just around the corner. It will be nice to have some cooler days – hopefully, very soon. 210 7th Street West, Historic Springfield, FL 32206 Looking forward to meeting our new members coming to Phone 904-633-9308 President Cynthia Fisher us from the Membership Committee’s Membership Drive – bring your neighbors and www.springfieldwomansclub.org friends and win!!! And we all win!!!! The Events Committee has been busy making plans – be on the lookout for some WOMAN’S CLUB MEETING—OCTOBER notices coming out. Yoga is back!!!! Thursday at 6:15 – Please join us!!! The Decorating Committee continues to work upstairs in the Bride’s room and will Please join us on Tuesday, October 19 at the Woman’s Club at 210 unveil it during the Open House on Friday, October 15. This is also the evening of the 7th Street West beginning at 6:30 p.m. for half-hour social time followed by Yard Sale preview sale – for residents only. The general yard sale will take place on the meeting starting at 7:00 p.m. The proposed bylaws revisions will be Saturday, October 16 so mark your calendars. If you have anything you would like to voted on by the members at this meeting. Plans are to have Supervisor of sell, please contact Leslei Street. Elections Jerry Holland as our speaker to discuss the upcoming election, The Garden Club has been busy with weeding and cleaning up the Rose Arbor in specifically to explain the amendments on the ballot. Confederate Park and also the roundabouts in the community. Thermostats have been installed and are being programmed so hopefully, that Bring an appetizer or bottle of wine to share. We hope to see you will help cut the JEA bill. there! We are looking at other options for the Holiday Home Tour this year and will keep you posted. There are many other things going on as well – there is a place for everyone to SIAWC OFFICERS SIAWC COMMITTEE CHAIRS help – many hands make light work and we would love to have everyone involved. I know President Cynthia Fisher Building & Maintenance Kim Wisdom sometimes it seems like things don’t get done very fast; remember, we are all volunteers Events & Fund Raising Fran Downing and the more that help; the faster things can get done. 1st Vice President Monica McVay Finance (Ways & Means) Leslei Street My email address is [email protected] and I look forward to hearing from Historian Christina Parrish you. Cynthia 2nd Vice President Rose Snyder Rental Cynthia Fisher SACARC Karen Kaufman 3rd Vice President Kim Heyde Garden Club Parliamentarian Alex Stremitzer Secretary Bev Miller Holiday Home Tour Fran Downing Treasurer Debbie Thompson HAPPY BIRTHDAY Decorating Leslei Street Columbus Day October 11 to Bosses Day October 16 Alex Stremitzer—October 5 Halloween October 31 It has been decided to Note: The Garden Club doesn’t have a chair Annette Schultz—October 6 cancel the Holiday but Joe Molenda and Frank Noonan are the main Romona Horne—October 8 Home Tour this year. contacts for the group. Jay Fisher—October 10 Lloyd Downing—October 11 Angela Mealer—October 14 Sharlene Dano—October 29 Page 3 Page 4 Editor’s Notes The Blossom is available on the Springfield Woman’s Club GARDEN CLUB rd website at www.springfieldwomansclub.org and at various businesses in Plants and sharing: The Springfield Garden club met September 23 at Springfield: Uptown Market, Hola’s, Wafaa N Mike’s Cafe, SPAR, Sweet Pete’s, the Springfield Woman’s Club. Frank and Susan Noonan brought several beautiful Three Layers, Tommy’s breakfast-in-a-cup place, in the lobby at the University of plants they started from seed, as well as seeds to share. Frank trained the yellow Florida/Shands Proton Beam, Premier Pharmacy, and at the Woman’s Club; and is now being included in SPAR’s new newsletter premiering this month! buttercup into a tree form by removing the lower branches. This plant blooms If you are not receiving notification via e-mail that the current issue of profusely with the little yellow flowers lasting only about a day. Frank gets the Blossom is now posted on the website, please provide your e-mail address additional starts by removing the volunteers and potting them up. (along with your name and street address) to [email protected] so you can keep up with The scarlet sage is a handsome plant with small, very dark green leaves and stalks of tiny the neighborhood news! Showcase your business in the next issue by submitting a business card size ad and $25. red flowers. The plant the Noonans brought to show us started out small this spring, about 6” tall, This is a great inexpensive way to get the word out to Springfield residents and beyond Springfield! but had reached a height of 3 or 4 feet in its flower pot. Scarlet sage should be set out in the Many thanks to all our current and past advertisers!! spring. The plant’s flower spike forms from the bottom up, and the lower seed pods often dry out Please send articles for publication in the Blossom to the editor at and pop, scattering the tiny seed, before the top of the spike has finished blooming. Frank shared [email protected] by the 23rd of each month. It makes my job easier if I receive information from others. Thank you to all those who do submit articles each month; however, we’re that the way to save seed of the scarlet sage is to gather the flower heads when the lower seed always looking for more information to include. Bev Miller, Newsletter Editor pods look full, before the flower spike fully blooms, and put them in a large plastic bag. When the seed pods dry out and start to open, shake the bag well to dislodge the seeds, which will sink to the A Taste of the Middle East bottom of the bag. in Springfield Frank and Susan also brought a lovely begonia which they received as a start from Fran One of the exciting aspects of Downing. Fran shared that her plant was a start Frank and Susan had given her, thereby completing living in Springfield is the growth in the circle of sharing and friendship the Springfield Garden Club enjoys. diversity of food choices. Recently in a Fall gardening: We also discussed fall gardening and gardening chores. Frank brought a visit to Wafaa N Mike’s Café, I enjoyed few items he had printed from IFAS, the University of Florida’s extension website (http:// a delicious taste from the Middle www.ifas.ufl.edu) The IFAS website calls for digging caladium bulbs in the fall and storing them in Eastern cuisine. A little over nine years peat or clean sand at a temperature not above 70 degrees. However, Rose and John Snyder have ago Wafaa and Mike opened the AAA beautiful caladiums in their yard, so many their home is known in the neighborhood as “The Automotive repair service, now a Caladium House,” and Rose said they never dig up their caladium bulbs in the fall. Rose said they mainstay in Springfield. Wafaa N Mike’s buy large bulbs, fertilize the caladiums at least monthly to keep the bulbs robust throughout the Café located at 1544 N. Main Street occupies the space next to AAA previously occupied growing season, and then mulch in the fall and leave them in the ground. Every year, she and John by a bakery café. After it closed, many residents encouraged this couple to open a purchase additional caladium bulbs from Joyner’s Caladiums in Lake Placid, Florida, and supplement restaurant that served an alternative to burgers, Chinese, or chicken. Today, customers the caladium beds where needed in late winter/early spring. have wonderful fresh food options that range from Kabobs to Grape Leaves, salads to In September, it’s time to plant daises and snapdragons. Wait until October for wraps, or appetizers to subs. Their menu also offers burgers and kids meals so there is strawberries, and late October or November for pansies. something for everyone. They are open Monday-Saturday from 10:00 am to 9:00 pm. They will deliver with orders of $25.00 or more. Coleus: In discussing Rose and John Snyder’s beautiful garden, we talked about how nice Wafaa and Mike love the relationships they have formed here in Springfield and the their coleus plants are as well. This time of year, they start to flag, due to the heat. Revive them by small town, family oriented community that they find here. What they wish to express cutting them back quite a bit to reduce the amount of foliage the roots have to support. The plant most heartily is their appreciation for the continued customer support that has helped will put out new growth and revive. Rose has been buying coleus at Hassel Nursery, off I-10 near them through the hard times during the Main Street renovations. They also cater events the Marietta exit. and have catered events at the Shands Proton Center and the health department to Daylilies: Fran Downing mentioned she had difficulty with day lilies here in Florida, and name just a few. They have plans to expand into an open courtyard in the rear so that that they didn’t seem to bloom well. We discussed how well they bloom in clay soils, and that it they can offer a relaxed but elegant outdoor eating experience as well.